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The point is not that gun control reduces the number of murders: it's that making it harder to get hold of a gun makes it harder to kill somebody. Anybody who
by powatom 14y ago
The point is not that gun control reduces the number of murders: it's that making it harder to get hold of a gun makes it harder to kill somebody.
Anybody who wants to kill somebody badly enough will do it with or without gun control: you'll still be able to get hold of a gun regardless. What gun control will do, however, is make it much more unlikely that somebody will go out and act on their murderous feelings.
To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To a man with a gun, it looks like a valid solution to far more problems than it actually is.
- smartwater 14y agoA loud, messy, expensive, most likely traceable gun would be the worst way to kill someone.
- powatom 14y agoAnd yet here we are: a man just shot up a school full of kids. A gun is an effective way to kill somebody - regardless of what happens after the fact. Most of the time in these kinds of massacres, the perpetrator doesn't care at all what happens after the fact - and I'm willing to bet that in a lot of gun murder cases, the perpetrator was not thinking about the consequences / ramifications at the time they pulled the trigger.
- serge2k 14y agoIt's quicker, easier, and safer for you than most other methods.